On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Thomas Johnsson wrote: > I'm convinced that if laziness (or call by name) were the norm in > languages in general, then there would be similar traffic > in lists like this one about the problems of strict evaluation -- and > there would be a lot more of it, > since strictness constrains the programming style a lot more!
You can divide "problems" into two areas... I can imagine people might complain on lists like this about strictness preventing them from taking a certain approach that laziness would allow. But I can't imagine they would complain about the problem of being confused... "this strict code evaluated immediately, what's going on?!" :) This is because strict evaluation is always easy to understand. Lazy/non-strict evaluation can be non-intuitive/confusing/surprising, even for people who are used to it. N _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
